New York Governor George Pataki announced today that he signed three measures into law that will further protect New York?s consumers and their privacy. These bills establish the Consumer Communication Records Privacy Act, place limits on the use and disclosure of Social Security account numbers, and further clarify and define what is considered a computer crime. “These important new laws are yet another step towards ensuring that New York consumers do not fall victim to identity theft,” Pataki said.
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Identity theft is the growing national epidemic. There are literally hundreds of ways you can loose your all important credit ratings through identity theft, as it happens with a hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. There are more numbers of identity theft cases reported than there are robberies filed. Preventing identity theft is a simple matter of playing it safe. Identity theft protection relies on the old adverb better safe than sorry. Preventing identity theft is the key to identity theft protection.
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Standards body the Liberty Alliance Project believes it can contribute something currently missing from the ongoing debate on tackling identity theft — a lexicon of terms defining exactly what constitutes ID theft. The alliance, which focuses on developing open standards for federated network identity, revealed its work on the lexicon Tuesday. Source - ComputerWorld
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